At the bottom of the Earth is a continent encased in ice, a place so remote and mysterious that it’s largely unknown to most people. Yet Antarctica holds secrets that affect our climate future. Antarctica’s secrets are not in the ice, but in the rocks beneath it.

That’s why NET Television producer Gary Hochman, videographers Pat Aylward & Brian Sefferlein, and audio engineer Jim Lenertz made four separate trips to Antarctica to cover the ANDRILL expedition. ANDRILL is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s (UNL) international geological drilling program investigating Antarctica’s role in climate change.

ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing): A multinational collaboration comprised of more than 200 scientists, students, and educators from five nations to recover stratigraphic records from the Antarctic margin.